The UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) assured that it will have to cease its operations if donations from countries that have announced that they will stop their financing are not resumed. UNRWA, on which a large part of the population of the Gaza Strip depends, is in the eye of the storm after Israel revealed a report on the alleged participation of 12 of its members in the attacks carried out by Hamas on October 7 , in which more than 1,000 people died. This Monday, January 29, the details of the Israeli intelligence document were also known.
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“If funding is not restored, UNRWA will not be able to continue its services and operations in the region, particularly in Gaza, beyond the end of February,” said a spokesperson for the UN Palestinian Refugee Agency.
This Monday, January 29, the agency issued a statement in which it recalled that “the majority of Gazans depend on UNRWA to survive,” and assured that 13,000 of its members “work tirelessly in unimaginable conditions” to make it possible for humanitarian aid to reach the besieged enclave.
In the same statement, the entity regrets that its humanitarian employees “must pay the price for the alleged actions of 12 of their colleagues” and reaffirmed its “firm commitment to transparency.”
At least 10 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Italy, have suspended sending funds to the agency, while the accusation made by Israeli intelligence is investigated, which places the humanitarian management it carries out at serious risk. in Gaza.
Details of Israel report revealed
A document that the Israeli Government shared with the United States, and to which the AP news agency had access, details that at least two of the 12 workers accused of having participated in the October 7 attacks kidnapped or collaborated in the kidnapping of Israeli citizensand that two others were involved in raids on agricultural communes.
A fifth man was seen armed with an anti-tank missile the night before the attacks and another took photographs of a hostage, the document states.
Nine of the 12 employees listed in the report are teachers and another is a social worker. The Israeli intelligence report indicates that seven of them crossed the border on October 7. While ten had alleged links to Hamas and one to Islamic Jihad.
On the other hand, two of the 12 identified have died. The Israeli intelligence report indicates that at least 190 UNWRA employees would be part of these two organizations, but does not provide evidence in this regard.
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